Hi,

I perceive the need to change/improve the OpenEHR spec because of this 
discussion.

What is the interpretation by Thomas?

GF

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> On 26 Jun 2018, at 04:17, Pablo Pazos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gerard,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:04 AM, GF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
> See below
> 
> GF
> 
> Gerard   Freriks
> +31 620347088
>   [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> Kattensingel  20
> 2801 CA Gouda
> the Netherlands
> 
>> On 24 Jun 2018, at 01:49, Pablo Pazos <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gerard,
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 6:58 PM, GF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> wrote:
>> When one assumes that the all events are the same kind of events but 
>> occurring at various points in time,
>> 
>> That is what is supported by the openEHR spec, no need to assume. All EVENTs 
>> in HISTORY.data are of the same type ~ have the same definition in the 
>> archetype.
>> 
>> 
>> Then the period can be expressed as Frequency (n/T) or equally as Period 
>> n/F).
>> 
>> Where n=number of events and T= total time from begin of the first event 
>> till the last (E.1 - E.n)
>> Clinical example:
>> Heart rate = 120 beats per minute.
>> 
>> Or as Period (T=n/F) expressed as time units that is the time between two 
>> events.
>> Clinical example:
>> Period between heart beats =  60/120 = 0,5 seconde. I.E the time between 
>> E(n+1) - E(n)
>> 
>> In your example
>> Period =  1 divided by Time (E2.start - Time E1.start),
>> or, Period = 1 divided by Time(E3.start) - Time(E2.start)
>> or, Period = 2  divided by Time (E3.start - Time E1.start)
>> 
>> This works with POINT_EVENT, my question is about INTERVAL_EVENT from the 
>> openEHR specs, where each event start and end are different.
> 
> Any Event (process) has an end date and start date an can be small but never 
> zero.
> End dates are always different from start dates.
> So what do you mean?
> 
> I'm talking about openEHR events by the definition of the specs, not trying 
> to come up with another definition. In openEHR POINT_EVENT is the record of 
> an event that to the record is just a point in time, doesn't really matters 
> if in reality the event took 10 seconds to execute, like a BP reading. That 
> is not clinically relevant in most contexts.
> 
> 
>> 
>> By openEHR, the heart rate EVENT is one single measure of the hear rate, 
>> there is no record of individual beats.
> 
> Its meaning can be several things.
> It can be the rate (frequency) at a real point in time. Time=T e.g. now, 
> yesterday.
> Or it can be the average over a period of time.e.g. the last minute,the last 
> 10 minutes, the last month.
> Actually it is a little bit more complex.
> 
> 
> Again, I'm following the spec definitions, not trying to create my own 
> interpretation. In that context, current models of heart rate, and current 
> information model structure for OBSERVATION don't try to model individual 
> beats, an EVENT is not that, is the consideration of the beat rate as one 
> data point.
> 
> Then the period that I'm talking about is the HISTORY.period by the openEHR 
> specs, that affect EVENTs in the same OBSERVATION time series. That is not 
> clearly defined in the specs (going back to my original question).
> 
> 
>> What would make an INTERVAL_EVENT from heart rate, is to record the average 
>> heart rate in an hour.
> 
> Frequency at point in a Unit Time.
> 
> Not sure that I'm following. INTERVAL_EVENT by the openEHR specs is not that. 
> It allows to record a summarized value from an interval of time, e.g. average 
> (or max, or min, or mean, ...) heart rate in the last 10 minutes.
> 
> 
>> And a periodic list of INTERVAL_EVENTs, would be records of the average of 
>> the heart rate that happen periodically. The issue I'm having is the specs 
>> don't have a concrete definition of "period" for INTERVAL_EVENT series.
> 
> INTERVAL–EVENTs as interval between events measured over a period of time.
> 
> What is NOT defined?
> 
> This is not correct, check the spec: 
> http://www.openehr.org/releases/RM/Release-1.0.2/docs/data_structures/data_structures.html#_history_package
>  
> <http://www.openehr.org/releases/RM/Release-1.0.2/docs/data_structures/data_structures.html#_history_package>
> 
> 
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